Natural Gift Quotes

I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.

I don't believe in talent. Talent doesn't exist.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

I've always been talented, always been able to sing or remember a song after hearing it one time.

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.

My mother says healers are born, not made.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

I was always good at music.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.

I was born to be a musician.

Passion is like genius: a miracle.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.

Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.

You are either born a writer or you are not.

I just was always singing. I didn't know if it was good or not, but my grandma, she told me that I sounded like an angel.

To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.